Saturday, February 13, 2010

PTI Flower {Embellishment} Challenge

The festivities continue over at Nichole's blog. Have you been following it? It's full of great inspiration, eye candy and contests. I haven't participated in every one of them, I admit. I do choose those that capture my attention. This one in particular really got me in a crafty mood :)

The contest was to create a sheet of flower embellies and create a card using one of them. How cool is that!! Ever since I began paper crafting one of the things I was known for was creating handmade embellies. So I couldn't pass this one by ;)

Here's my take on this lovely challenge:

To create the flower embellishments I used a flower stamp (the only one I possess). I stamped it 14 times 7 times in magenta and 7 times in orange. Then I took my scissors and cut and cut and cut. I popped up the smaller flower and either added a button or shimmer. The end result was so worth all that cutting :)

These are so great Jessica. I only own one flower stamp too--about to order a set from PTI though--thanks for the great inspiration! I really like how you varied it with both button and glitter flower centres

Just found your blog! Love it!!!! :) I love paper crafts. But alas, all my stuff is at our home in Washington. So last night I downloaded a trial version of PSE to see if I like digiscrapping. So far, I love it! :)

My one BIG question is this: how do you find the time to do crafts? Bella, at this age (2) will not let me do things like this yet. I can't wait for the day we can do them together.

Life is a marvelous chaos! Recapturing wonders is my corner to refresh and share with you my craftiness because after all at the very beginning we're given a canvas and it's up to us to fill it up. Thanks for the visit and enjoy the parenting, cooking, painting, stamping and everything in between madness of this beautiful place.